And the reason for focusing on that time frame is that it's going to take us a considerable period of time to develop the new capabilities, processes and organizations that will be needed.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little over four years.
We want to be on the edge of technology all of the time. We think long-term.
I'm sure there will continue to be exciting new products and major changes, but it looks as if the existing technology has a great deal of room to grow and prosper.
This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.
We're building a great company, and we're very excited about the future of the company.
After all, it's the future of business communication that we're looking toward.
Somewhere in that 20-year period, I would assume that there will be some basically new approach that will begin to cut into it, but it's got a long time.
We have been working hard to think about what our combined needs are going to be in the way of intelligence capabilities, not today but 15 to 20 years in the future.
I don't know the time frame exactly, but it's clear they're all going to want to start spending money again.
My view is there's no bad time to innovate.
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